Have to tell story
nudgie
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but don't want to jenx myself. Here it goes.
Had my annual physical with my primary care doc on 11 Nov (been seeing him for 20+ yrs). Great bedside manner:)
First test was the EKG. The nurse comes in hooks me up (beam me up scottie) and presses the majic button. Poof, the machines spits out all this up and down lines and she says, looks good.
Doc comes in and we do the normal chit chat and then I ask about my EKG. He states he needs to look at the one before, so he searches through my 1-1/2" file and finds it. Looks at me ans says, we have an electric impulse problem that needs to be watched, but don't worry this does not put in the category for having a stroke, heart attack, etc., only in the category of needing a pace maker. A pace maker? ****, I am 46 years old (as I am saying this to myself). I looked at him with this what the SH@?% look and you got to be kidding.
Then he explained that it is taking 2.22 seconds from the electric impulse to go from point a to point b. It has only increased somewhat and could actually go back to normal next year. Need to check yearly.
It's funny though, you take care of yourself, try and eat right most of your life, work out physically and cardio, maintain your weight throughout your life and blamn, 2006 cancer and 2010 could be looking at a pace maker in my retirement years. Then you have people that are overweight, obese, don't watch what they eat, don't exercise, smoke, drink, etc., and blamn, never a health issue.
Sratch head, and go figure LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had my annual physical with my primary care doc on 11 Nov (been seeing him for 20+ yrs). Great bedside manner:)
First test was the EKG. The nurse comes in hooks me up (beam me up scottie) and presses the majic button. Poof, the machines spits out all this up and down lines and she says, looks good.
Doc comes in and we do the normal chit chat and then I ask about my EKG. He states he needs to look at the one before, so he searches through my 1-1/2" file and finds it. Looks at me ans says, we have an electric impulse problem that needs to be watched, but don't worry this does not put in the category for having a stroke, heart attack, etc., only in the category of needing a pace maker. A pace maker? ****, I am 46 years old (as I am saying this to myself). I looked at him with this what the SH@?% look and you got to be kidding.
Then he explained that it is taking 2.22 seconds from the electric impulse to go from point a to point b. It has only increased somewhat and could actually go back to normal next year. Need to check yearly.
It's funny though, you take care of yourself, try and eat right most of your life, work out physically and cardio, maintain your weight throughout your life and blamn, 2006 cancer and 2010 could be looking at a pace maker in my retirement years. Then you have people that are overweight, obese, don't watch what they eat, don't exercise, smoke, drink, etc., and blamn, never a health issue.
Sratch head, and go figure LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yup
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I hear ya
My mom had never drank alcohol, never smoked anything, exercised regularly, maintained healthy eating (well as healthy as southerners can), no familial history of any cancer and she gets struck at 58 with stage four colon cancer and died at 60. Sometimes it just ain't fair, is it.0
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